Lin v. Everyday Beauty is an Eastern District of New York decision addressing an issue that has divided district courts in the Second Circuit and elsewhere: Whether a federal court may consider inadmissible evidence when...more
9/10/2019
/ Affidavits ,
Class Action ,
Class Certification ,
Class Members ,
Dukes v Wal-Mart ,
Evidence ,
Evidentiary Rulings ,
Evidentiary Standards ,
FRCP 23 ,
Hearsay ,
Inadmissible Evidence
On April 4, the United States Supreme Court denied certiorari review of a $188 million class-action judgment returned against Wal-Mart in Pennsylvania state court and later upheld by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court regarding...more
A divided panel of the Fourth Circuit ruled that a South Carolina district court judge improperly applied Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes in decertifying disparate treatment and disparate impact claims challenging promotion...more